• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    sententious

    sententious /sĕn-tĕn′shəs/ adjective

    1. Terse and energetic in expression; pithy.
    2. Full of or given to using aphorisms, especially in a pompously moralizing manner.
    3. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy. “a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth”

    Learned a new word, thanks!

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      4 hours ago

      Haha thanks for commenting with the definition. I considered doing that myself, since I too only just recently learned the word, but somehow it feels kind of condescending to do it myself.

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        4 hours ago

        lol yeah, would’ve been weird if you did it, and I wanted to save some folks the time. I wonder if it would still be condescending if you just linked a word to a page with its definition?